HSK 6 · Emotions

信赖 xìnlài “to trust” in Chinese

Traditional 信賴

What 信赖 means

  1. to trust
  2. to rely on
  3. to have confidence in
  4. to have faith in

How to say 信赖

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale信xìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赖lài4th tone, falling

信赖 in a sentence

  1. 我信赖他。

    Wǒ xìnlài tā.

    I trust him.

    Sentence #808210 from Tatoeba

  2. 他虽然年轻却很值得信赖。

    Tā suīrán niánqīng què hěn zhíde xìnlài.

    He may be young, but he’s very trustworthy.

    Sentence #1221450 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 你可以永远信赖汤姆。

    Nǐ kěyǐ yǒngyuǎn xìnlài Tāngmǔ.

    You can always rely on Tom.

    Sentence #872440 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 信赖 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 信 (xìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
信xìnletter
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 言speech · yán

Memory aidA person 亻 and their word 言: to trust, and a letter.

The character 赖 (lài) with each of its parts in a different colour
赖làito depend on
  • 剌to slash · làSound part
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 剌 (là) hints at the sound. Compare it with lài.

How to write 信赖

信 9 strokes · 赖 13 strokes

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信赖 (xìnlài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 信赖 (xìnlài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 信赖

Words with 信

信xìn · letter相信xiāngxìn · to believe信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card自信zìxìn · to have confidence in oneself短信duǎnxìn · text message信息xìnxī · information信封xìnfēng · envelope信心xìnxīn · confidence信任xìnrèn · to trust信号xìnhào · signal

Words with 赖

无赖wúlài · rogue依赖yīlài · to depend on

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FAQs

信赖 (xìnlài) means “to trust” or “to rely on”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xìnlài: xìn with a 4th tone, then lài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 信赖 is written 信賴. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xinlai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 信赖 from the suggestions. Typing xinlai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
信赖 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.